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Risky timing but it paid off!

I'll definitely vote a couple of times for Finland. Is there any competition?

Misses shows because of a nasty virus: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/tony-blackburn-misses-radio-shows-26448646

Tongo is gone: https://rpp.pe/lima/actualidad/fallecio-el-cantante-abelardo-gutierrez-tongo-noticia-1471916 There'll ... probably an obit for him that counts here, but elsewhere?

Mike Swick has beaten his stage 4 cancer: https://www.mmafighting.com/2023/3/9/23632761/tuf-1-veteran-mike-swick-beats-stage-4-lymphoblastic-lymphoma-cancer

Malachy McCourt kicked out of hospice for not being ill enough, lol: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/nyregion/malachy-mccourt.html

Polito Vega, king of spanish-language music radio in New York, "El Rey de la Radio", dead at 84: https://news.yahoo.com/polito-vega-el-rey-la-195900679.html

Currently seven dead after a shooting in Hamburg at a Jehova's Witnesses "church": https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/09/six-killed-and-others-wounded-in-hamburg-shooting Shooter on the loose.

Goodbye, and many thanks for the contributions! I enjoyed your work very much. I wish for you to be able to channel these efforts into a different subject. The forum will be around for a while I suspect. I dare say that one never completely leaves this interest.

The SPIEGEL obit is out now. I kind of expected a "Breaking News" announcement, but it didn't happen: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/weisse-rose-traute-lafrenz-im-alter-von-103-jahren-gestorben-a-256ec38e-9860-4cfb-8d8d-8caec42f05be

Gold Rush White Water star Fred Hurt has stage 3 brain cancer: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/breaking-gold-rush-white-water-29408462 I've never heard of the show. He's 80 years old now, so I'm not sure he's going to last long enough for many future lists.

BBC Essex presenter Sadie Nine faces her third cancer battle: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/bbc-star-announces-devastating-cancer-26423893

Oh my, it is done... my database is updated. Now I can enjoy the rest of the year... ..let's see if I can get the full update. Thank you for your notices above. Let's start with them: Just Fontaine scores twice here (not 13 times...). Betty Boothroyd was quite the popular hit. Gordon Pinsent, (who I always confused with an old criminal) was a hit for Torva Messor and GuyFromFuture. Nobody shares the hit of Augie Nieto with Wormfarmer - an extreme obit gamble that paid off. SalmonMousse scores massively with Slim Borgudd, Simone Edwards and Mark Pilgrim, who barely got a BBC obit, but he DID get it. Amazingly, these three names are all unique.. could this finally be SalmonMousse's year? Gooseberry Crumble only gets two unique hits, Raquel Welch and Bernard Ingham. His third hit, Stella Stevens, is shared, with Sean, for example. Next, Tim Lobinger. I guess I was too dismissive of this german name and his obit chances, but quite a few of you were rewarded for the risk. Huey "Piano" Smith was a unique hit for Death Impends. Finally, the Deathlist hits of Burt Bacharach and Pervez Musharraf also score plentifully here. Next, I noticed some 2022 deaths that I replaced in my database. I am probably not going to adjust the masterlist for a while, if at all... But rest assured, it's all in my game file. JoeMoneypenny missed that a japanese businessman (I already forgot the name) already died in 2022. Satoru Sayama gets in as a replacement. Somebody (Diego?) also picked japanese dance Yuriko, but that person also died in 2022. Norman Lear is the sub. We also have a couple of names waiting for their obits, Steve Woodmore and Juan Velarde Fuentes, as far as I can tell. The chances are probably slim... Next up, the hits of relatively old people not yet announced here. Dick Cheney's accidental target, Harry Whittington was a unique hit for Summer in Transilvania. The former chairman of the Toyota corporation, Shoichido Toyoda was a unique hit for LadyFiona. Now, another triplet of unique hits, this time for Diego: Felix Sienra, Hsing Yun and ancient Serbian actress Branka Veselimovic are all for him alone. Well done! Aaand.. next ones, let's look at the yet unmentioned DDP hits: Christopher Fowler is a hit for three people, and Miroslav Blazevic is a hit for two people, Banana among them. Ricou Browning is the second unique hit in this update for Death Impends. Walter Mirisch is a unique hit for Daredevil.. You all really managed to pick them all! (except for Gary Rossington, I guess...) I wonder what this all adds up to... but I suspect, we have a repeat of last year with Banana and Salmon Mousse battling it out. Rank Team Score 1 Banana 486 2 Perhaps 377 3 Salmon Mousse 351 4 Funeralopolis 348 5 Cpt. Chorizo 319 6 JoeyRuss 270 7 ThereWillBeDeaths7 256 8 The Spinosaurus 253 9 RadGuy 248 10 gcreptile 245 11 Book 235 12 Death Impends 222 13 Grim Up North 219 14 TheOldLady 209 15 Toast 208 16 wannamaker 203 17 msc 202 18 GuyFromFuture 200 19 Summer in Transylvania 195 20 An Fear Beag 192 21 Wormfarmer 186 21 Diego 186 23 Thatcher 183 24 Sean 176 25 Gooseberry Crumble 175 25 Joltin Joe 175 27 TheUnknownMan 171 28 The Daredevil 168 29 Predictor 163 30 chilean way 157 31 DevonDeathTrip 151 32 Buffalo Phil 148 33 DeathBecomesThem 147 33 Nick 147 35 Mr. Wonderful 145 36 Torva Messor 125 37 Charles De Gaulle 121 38 Famous6Eva 120 38 Etushipushingupdaisies 120 38 Drol 120 41 MortalCaso 116 42 Hell 107 43 The Old Crem 104 44 tracy 102 45 YoungWillz 92 45 etib80 92 45 Mr. Custard 92 48 John Key 69 49 Annami 68 50 Liz Lemon 66 51 CalebH 64 51 TheQuimReaper 64 51 MariNisia 64 51 Pedro67 64 55 Lady Fiona 54 56 JoeMoneypenny 43 56 Cpt. Hemlock 43 58 Ghostofchristmaspast 29 59 Bibliogryphon 0 59 Great Uncle Bulgaria 0 59 sam081 0 Not quite... Perhaps has pushed beyond SalmonMousse. Funeralopolis is at a spectacular fourth place. Banana maintains the lead, not yet with unique hits, but by hitting all the must-haves. I probably have missed this or that. Feel free to point it out. Edit: Adjusted

Discharged and back home: https://www.selecoes.com.br/saude/rita-lee-recebe-alta-e-emociona-fas-com-registro/

My pick Masum Babul has died: https://www.newagebd.net/article/196161/choreographer-filmmaker-masum-babul-dies I'm sorry...

Times interview 4 days ago: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/frank-field-interview-politics-poverty-and-belief-a-political-memoir-7zcp0n3pf Unfortunately behind a paywall.

I dont know if I ever saw anyone lying to themselves as much as he did. He talked of recovery until the end. But then, what can one do. What would I do...

Well...it would have been for pleasure, BUT.... I am actually in Germany after all. A last minute organisational issue came up, bit of a fuck-up actually. It will have to be another time.

No score updates until Wednesday. Not at home, but in Dublin.

Guardian obit is there: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/03/bryant-may-novelist-christopher-fowler-has-died-aged-69 The date might still be a question but every tweet says it happened on the 2nd.

I count 16 spells of ill health now, starting with the eight ones I cited when the thread began.

My pick Christopher Fowler has died, see the Authors thread. Obit yet to come.

Jazz Saxophone LEGEND Wayne Shorter, dies out of the blue, at 89: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/arts/music/wayne-shorter-dead.html Big collaborator with Miles Davis, member of Weather Report, and a huge solo career. DDP pick, naturally.

Cross-posted - Steve Mackey, bass player of 90s Britpop giants Pulp, has died at 56 of a brief illness: https://vanyaland.com/2023/03/02/rip-steve-mackey-of-pulp-has-died-at-the-age-of-56/

Steve Mackey of Pulp has died at 56: https://vanyaland.com/2023/03/02/rip-steve-mackey-of-pulp-has-died-at-the-age-of-56/ Died of a quick illness, maybe pancreatic cancer as msc foretold in 2020?